En plein air

I know this is a log of my work, and it's looking suspiciously like I haven't done much for a while.
I have been incredibly busy,(I know, poor excuse) but I've also taken the space I needed to think evaluate and to plan.
Ricky and I have also begun to work together on ideas for the next phase of our collaboration which will be a series of feature pieces for the exhibition we're working towards.

Our vision is for the viewer to wonder where the two dimensional paintings begin and the sculptures end, as they experience our work. To look into and through the work, stand amongst it, walk around it or to kneel beside it. We want the viewer to understand that we're playing with a range of concepts like scale and perspective - like foreground and background (where do they begin and end?), or with the qualities of space and with the marrying of two and three dimensional forms of expression.
Sounds exciting eh ? It is.

To that end we've been sketching outdoors to build a common vocabulary and a collective understanding of the figure in space. It's slightly mad (and strangely addictive), rather cold but fun catching the gestures of people as they walk purposefully into the wind, going about their business.

I'll post some of my scribbles this week - for that's what they are... and I hope to work some of them up as working drawings (in paint and pastel) towards our joint work, this weekend.

Sometimes it's going to seem a bit quiet in here over the next couple of months, we're taking the time we need to over this, and given that the work we make will be ours - not mine... it may not appear here. Or perhaps my working paintings and explorations will feature instead as well as these musings. I still want to follow up on that interstitial space idea and I'm looking forward to that.